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In no way am I complaining at trick riding on a fixed gear, or saying it shouldn't happen - I have no right to - but I just find it to seem a little odd on a fixed gear.

Some tricks look pretty good - and cant really be done on any other type of bike, but the majority of tricks (and anything that involves jumping, bunny hopping) I feel looks clumsy and awkward... Something which is much easier and pleasing to the eye on a BMX or a jump bike.

Every time I watch a video of people doing it, half of me thinks 'yeah thats cool' and the other half thinks 'wouldn't another bike be better?'

As I said, this is not a complaint, more of an inquisitive question to the world of the trick fixed bikers!

Nick

http://www.lfgss.com/thread40293.html

£40

Surely the wheels wouldn't spin right?

£39.99 ;-)

I can't wait for page 12. Page 11 sucks on an iPhone!

Copy that!

Same, I want so let me know anyone pulls out! Pm me

cheers
nick

Hi Hamish

That was only one place that I looked on and put in a load of rough dimensions off the top of my head which was just over £17 plus the VAT.

If you can find and arrange it for any less then that is totally cool with me.

Regards
Nick

Hi Hamish, postage would be somewhere between £20-25 I'd imagine, but not sure until I measure up...

Would that be sufficient?

More image attached.

Where you based?

Ha! It must be the cycling ghost I keep hearing about... Freaky!

Yeah it's fairly big but that's what you get for not living in London ;-)

Exactly.. Silver ball not included... X x

One more time... anybody wanna swap??

I've got this old Abbey bike, it has been stripped down ready for a few new bits.

So not much needed before its good to go...

23" frame
27" wheels

Needs a little love ;-)

£40 im out in kent, and so probably wouldnt be worth posting anywhere... but im sure we can come to some kinda arrangement...

If you would like any more information or pictures please let me know.

Nick

Cant wait...!

A write up in the SMH about this.http://smh.drive.com.au/motor-news/bmw-pushbike-brings-m-credentials-20100318-qh21.html

12kg 6 month old !

Like the majority of recent BMWs, theres something there that I strangly like!?

I like the stem...

Some of those stems are lovely!

However, they seem to be 1 1/8 and I'm after 1"

I've seen a few out there, the lowest so far for 1" is 22m

Nick

38mm to 44mm for road/XC stems, a bit more for some DH stems.

Headset stack varies quite a bit:
Chris King 13.7+17.7=31.4 (not the highest, I have a 33.5mm FSA on my desk and others may be higher still)
Crank Bros Cobalt 10.03+10.53=20.56
Cane Creek Aer 12.05+7.9=19.95
"Crank x Creek" 10.03+7.9=17.93 (lowest I know of)

Ideally, you should have a small spacer above the stem, so that the steerer projects fractionally through the stem clamp. Although fork and stem makers sometimes suggest the steerer can finish up to 3mm short of the top of the stem, having it go all the way through makes it much less likely that the stem will walk up the steerer under the cyclic loading and mess up your headset adjustment.

Anyone know where I can buy these from in the UK? Seem hard to come by...

Nick

Cool... I've worked out that including my headtub it will be about 195-200mm so I've got plenty of steerer... The stem clamp would be on about 15mm of thread however, but I'm thinking that if I get a 1 1/8 stem with a shim this will make it much stronger...

Retro de corsa has got on touch and we are discussing threading so I now have to decide which option is best for me... Threading would be the simplest although the ahead would be an interesting little project!

Also, Velosolo sell a 22mm stack 1 inch aheadset for £10.95... Bargain!

Update!

http://www.lfgss.com/thread39454.html#post1266275

Trouble with getting the forks rethreaded... Ughh...

Yeah I know...

From what I've read it will be okay...

All I have to decide is whether I'd prefer to spend £50 getting the steerer lathed, or using that to buy a new headset and stem...

At least that way Ill be getting something new out of it!

Ive asked him and he said he couldn't do it as he has too much on.

I've taken it to my local bike store and they said that the steel was too hard for his cutter to get through and that the only other option would be for an engineer to do it. The engineer quoted me £50 estimate because of the setup charge.

So thats left me with the idea of convertin it to 1 inch ahead. I reckon ill need about 200mm steerer, so the stem would clamp onto about 1cm of thread and the rest would be solid tube.

This sounds ok in my head but want confirmation. The other thing I need is average stem stack height, which I'd assume is around 4-5cm?

Cheers